Indeed, I thought « Lascia il centro » was entirely different from what Simondon means, which would be closer to « Iniziare dal centro ».
We’ve been thinking about this card a lot because it seems mostly incomprehensible when you don’t come from a Simondonian background. Here is another attempt at it in English:
Yet again, this might become difficult when considering a situation with only « object », since most people understand individual as a human being. Considering terms of a relation, the idea of starting from the center is to consider first the materiality of the relation, and take act that both terms do not pre-exist this relation: their encounter individuates them, and make them different “individuals” than they were before—a bit like the Chinese saying about the fisher and the river[1].
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A fisher never fishes in the same river twice ; he’s not the same fisher, and the river neither. ↩︎
